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The first time the woman called Veronica Davis’ Richmond home, she paid it no mind. The woman on the phone asked to talk to “Ray,” Davis said. “I just told her she had the wrong number.” But the woman called back. And called back again. “By the third time, I said, 'Honey, who are you looking for?’” Davis recalled. She began to wonder if the woman wanted her 12-year-old son, who sometimes called himself “Ray.” When the woman called a fourth time, Davis asked her age. The woman said she was 25. Davis told her that her son was only...

"US will lose war", says former UN inspector March 26 2003 at 06:42PM Lisbon - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said. "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening. "We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United...

OLATHE, Kan. Nov. 2 — Jurors recommended the death penalty Saturday for a man convicted of killing three women, including two whose bodies were found in barrels on his rural property. John Robinson Sr. was convicted Tuesday of two counts of capital murder in the deaths of the two women with whom prosecutors say he had sadomasochistic sexual relationships and one count of first-degree murder in the case of a woman whose body was never found.Robinson sat rocking in his chair with his hand on his face but showed little emotion as the verdict was read.Judge John Anderson III...

Sep 15, 2002Trial Set to Begin for Murder Suspect Accused of Stashing Victims' Bodies in BarrelsBy John MilburnAssociated Press Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The first two bodies were found crammed inside yellow metal barrels in a field in rural Kansas. Days later, three more missing women were found dead in 55-gallon drums at a storage locker 30 miles away in Missouri. Authorities say John E. Robinson Sr. - who owned the field and rented the locker - had trolled the Internet for sex under the name "slavemaster" and is responsible for both Kansas murders as well as four...